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Michael Arrington suffers from the worst possible case of selective memory imaginable. It wasn't that long ago that TC was involved in their own scandal when t
by iamdave 17y ago
Michael Arrington suffers from the worst possible case of selective memory imaginable. It wasn't that long ago that TC was involved in their own scandal when they gave a kid a Macbook pro in exchange for an article that at least three quarters of the tech community debunked as fud.
Then this happens, and he actually grandstands and says "I would never have done that", and tries to tell us he'd actually be an ethical reporter?
And the Oscar goes to...
- rpledge 17y agoTo be fair the kid asked for the laptop without Arringtons knowledge. They fired the offending employee and removed all his material from Techcrunch. They were very transparent about the whole incident
- iamdave 17y agoThank you for the clarification on this. I stand by my point that Arrington isn't exactly the most scrupulous tech blogger out there either, and this article just reeks of self-importance and conceit.
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- jrockway 17y agothis article just reeks of self-importance and conceit Whoa, TechCrunch is a blog?
- bdr 17y agoYou're putting us all down. Blogging is no more inherently self-important than speaking at all.
- jrockway 17y agoI find blogs to be more self-aggrandizing than traditional opinion columns. But indeed, I agree that it is unfair to pin general human traits on blogs. Oh, and if I sound like I'm on a high horse... I would do the same thing that Arringtion does, if only somebody cared what I thought about anything ;)